Off the Map (2003)

Joan Allen: Arlene

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• George : [about his psychiatrist]  I might ask her to marry me.

  Arlene : Marry you? George, really?

  George : She's a gentle person. She's very thoughtful. She cares.

  Arlene : You pay her to care. George, you ought not to confuse romance with business.

• Arlene : God damn it, Charley, not again! Come out. Come out, Charley, now! Come out now, enough. Look, Charley, you can lock yourself in the chicken house, you can lock yourself in the root cellar, you can lock yourself in the shed and the truck... no, not the truck, and not the outhouse! Come out of the outhouse right now! You're being selfish, Charley. You're just sitting there listening to me, being selfish and self-indulgent, self-pitying!

  [hits the outhouse door] 

  Arlene : Sweetheart, I can't take this much more. Humility, Charley, it's what keeps you from being humiliated. That's where the word comes from. Everybody gets depressed, why should you be above it, huh? Well I'll say one thing for you, when you take on a project you give it your all. God. You've never done anything half-assed in your life and you're not doing it now.

• Arlene : You're up. You look much better. You got some color.

  William Gibbs : Mrs. Grodin...

  Arlene : Would you like to wash yourself? Would you? There's a pool in the stream above the goat pen.

  William Gibbs : Mrs. Grodin, I...

  Arlene : There's a junked Mercury out at the dump, same model as yours. I'm sure we can get a lot of parts.

  William Gibbs : I love you.

  Arlene : Oh. Well, that's nice.

• Arlene : I don't think we should be feeding those drugs to the chickens. It's unkind.

  Charley : You fed them to *me*.

• [last lines] 

  Arlene : [on sail boat reading from "Two Years Before the Mast"]  In one week after leaving Cape Horn, the long, topgallant masts were got up, topgallant and royal yards crossed, and the ship restored to her fair proportions. The Southern Cross and Magellan Clouds settled lower and lower in the horizon...

  Arlene , Young Bo : [overlapping narration]  ... And so great was our change in latitude, that each succeeding night we sank some constellation in the south, and raised another in the northern horizon.